Battle of the Four Courts: The First Three Days of the Irish Civil War - Softcover

Fewer, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1788546652 ISBN 13: 9781788546652

Verlag: Apollo, 2020

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The Irish Civil War began at around four o'clock in the morning on June 28, 1922. An 18-pounder artillery piece commanded by soldiers loyal to Michael Collins and the new Irish government began to fire on the Four Courts—a beautiful 18th-century complex of buildings that housed Ireland's highest legal tribunals. Inside, a large party of IRA men were barricaded—a clear sign that the treaty ending the war of independence would never be accepted by passionate republicans. Collins had come under pressure from Winston Churchill and his cabinet colleagues to clear out the rebels. After three days of fighting, with the buildings in ruins, the garrison surrendered. But the Four Courts also housed Ireland's historical archives, and these irreplaceable documents were destroyed—a cultural disaster for the new state and its historical memory. The Civil War that followed led to generations of entrenched bitterness, with the two main Irish political parties owing their origins to the sides they chose in the war.

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Michael Fewer enjoyed 30 years as a practicing architect.

Michael Fewer enjoyed thirty years as an academic and practicing architect, and was a Fellow of the Royal Institute of Architects of Ireland, when he took up writing full-time in 2000. He has written twenty-two books on walking, travel, history and architecture, and his recent nature book for children was a bestseller. He was a consultant contributor to the Encyclopedia of Ireland and has featured in RTÉ television programmes and on RTÉ Radio's 'Sunday Miscellany'.

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• Verlag: Apollo
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1788546652
• ISBN 13: 9781788546652
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 335
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